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raise a reader
Choose a variety of everyday reading materials like cereal boxes, food labels, magazines and grocery store advertisements. Read these to your child and ask your child to read them to you. This connects reading to real life. When reading a storybook, identify the title, the author and important characters. Point to punctuation marks and discuss what they mean and how they sound. Recorded songs and stories are ideal for bath time or for commute time in the car. Take books with you everywhere and read while you are waiting for appointments or in a line at the grocery store. Talking to your child builds lauguage and helps them build their vocabulary.
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activities
Making play dough is a good way to practice eye-hand-coordination, practice reading directions and follow a sequence in a recipe, like a sequence in a story. Whether you make or buy the play dough or use colored pipe cleaners, your child can learn many things including forming shapes and making alphabet letters.
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Match objects from a picture book with objects that are buried in rice or sand. This can be done with any picture book. Keep in mind what little objects you have at home, or can get easily, that will match with the objects in a book. Think about involving your child when picking the book and the objects. She might have some good ideas since the items could come straight from her toy box. When the activity is over and the sorting is done, it is important to talk about the objects you did not find.
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Puzzles are both fun and challenging. When you and your child work on a puzzle together and talk about your puzzle he will learn problem solving, trial and error and will expand his language. While working on puzzles, he will develop an understanding of how parts of a story or objects are put together to make a whole.
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Arthur is so worried that no one will come to his birthday party since Francine scheduled her birthday party on the same day. Birthday party invitations are an important part of a child’s life. Writing or drawing an invitation is writing with a purpose that every child can understand. Help your child make a creative invitation to practice reading and writing.
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Make learning to read a game and your child will feel more positive about reading. Bring this book to life by catching letters of the alphabet and making a word. Your child can talk about the letters, make his name and form a word.
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Enjoy looking at books and reading them as a family. Reading and enjoying books is the best time you can spend with your child. She can learn so much from seeing you enjoy books, talking about books and sharing books with you.
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